If this was love, love had been overrated.
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.